I’m tired of contemplating & explaining people away, especially my ‘self’
It’s exhausting, really.
As I was folding my towels I started to have one of these sessions in my head about why (insert any name here) is the way that they are 🤔?
Could it be childhood trauma? A chemical imbalance? A general lack of awareness?
What makes someone the way that they are, and why do I act like it’s my job to figure it out?
I stopped in my rant and then came up with this idea,
Who cares?
It’s just me in a different experience
It’s all me(& you & us - as consciousness, experiencing itself) from different vantage points.
Explaining everything away isn’t actually helpful or a productive use of anyone’s time.
I didn’t do anything special to get to my viewpoint, just like another person wasn’t asked if they felt like coming into the existence that they are in.
But I’m sure if you asked most people, they would probably prefer at least a slightly different experience from the one that they are having.
Anyhow - it’s me and it’s you, and it’s everything, everywhere, all at once. Not to plug the movie but it’s true and also a great movie.
Existence simply *is*
Slayyy Queen
And we are all breathing it in at the same time together
whether we realize it or not
&
whether we like it or not
The things that separate us as people are learned.
When we look into the eyes of people that we feel a connection with, it feels very clear…there’s something else going on here.
Something deeper
When you look into the void, and the void looks back at you…
You can’t help but feel it physically
When we can acknowledge ourselves in other people, we return to our true nature.
Oneness.
Hairs on the same head.
Leaves on the same tree.
Hemorrhoids in the same ass? Too far? 😅
This can be a terrifying thought to most people.
-That we could be no different from the rest of us
-That our differences are perceived and projected
The thought that at the core of it, we are just as flawed and beautiful as everyone else because we are all here together at the same time.
Out of all the time to be here, now?
Us together in this lifetime?
I struggle with keeping this in mind as I go about my day.
This is something that meditation can help with.
Meditation helps to create the space to feel experience as it is, not as our minds are yapping on about.
As many times as it takes I’ll continue to return to it because the difference in feeling that we are connected and feeling that we are separate can greatly alter your perceived experience and impact the lives of everyone around you.
So much good stuff : living for the last time (not just first), and my personal fave, hemorrhoids lol
Need to listen again to absorb more. Love your perspective friend 🙏🏼